Paik Sun-yup

Paik Sun-yup (23 November 1920-) was a South Korean ROKA General during the Korean War.

Biography
Paik Sun-yup was born in Nampo, Japanese Korea in 1920, and he trained as a teacher before entering the Mukden Military Academy of Manchukuo. He engaged in guerrilla suppression work in eastern Manchuria and fought in China during the last months of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. In December 1945, he fled to South Korea to escape the rise of communism in North Korea, and he helped to build the ROKA army, crush communist guerrillas, and purge the army of leftists. At the start of the Korean War, he commanded a division trapped in the Pusan Perimeter, and he was placed in charge of I Corps in April 1951. In January 1953, he became the first four-star general of the ROKA, and he retired from the army in 1960. He served as ambassador to China in 1960, to France in 1961, and to Canada in 1965 and as Transportation Minister from 1969 to 1971, and, in January 2019, he expressed his disagreement with the "fake peace" made with North Korea.